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| Witness the development of Greek folk and popular music through albums with optimal sound quality and accurate info. |
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| Greek Music in the US |
| Around 1920 the cream of Greek musicians from Asia Minor settled in New York. They brought along a sophisticated knowledge instruments (oud, violin, clarinet, sndouri, saz) and an immense local tradition borrowing elements from Turkish, Middle – Eastern and European music. Soon after they thrived both in live clubs and in record companies such as Columbia and RCA-Victor. |
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| Music from Epirus |
| Recordings from Epirus (NW Greece) have nothing in common with any other genre of Greek traditional music. The clarinets, violins and stunning polyphonic choirs use an endless variety of improvisational techniques. The quality of these recordings (before the 1950’s) gave birth to a haunting atmosphere. Experience it in three collections from rare 78rpm records. |
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| Master Soloists |
| Our Master Soloists play the bouzouki, the oud, the violin, the clarinet, and the recorder. All of them are among the best instrumentalists in Greek folk music, and were free to play exactly the way they intended to. A unique panorama of all the major solo instruments in Greek folk music. |
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| Smyrneiko and Rembetiko songs |
| Smyrneiko is the song from Asia Minor. In itself a unique mix of Eastern and European music, it was transformed into the Rembetiko style, which is nothing less than the core of Greek popular music, that being a group with bouzouki, baglamas, guitar and a singer. Moving lyrics cover all aspects of Greek life between the wars and during the refugee influx (1920-1939). |
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Our goal, since 1981, is the promotion of traditional and contemporary folk and popular music from Greece in state-of-the-art productions. Our catalogue includes:
• Compilations and personal albums by legendary musicians that are key figures in the development of what is known today as Greek folk music. Most recordings date before the 1950’s (sometimes as back as 1907). The sound has been restored through analog equipment and digital technologies in order to recapture the unique timbre of the original recordings.
• Personal albums by virtuosi soloists of the contemporary folk and popular music scenes: a complete and accurate perspective of the main Greek folk instruments in albums suitable for specialist and amateur audiences.
All albums include detailed English texts on the artists and the musical genres. |
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